Governor please stay

Chapter 370
Gao Huan thought that the Erzhu Clan was at the end of the road, and that all the people under his command had long been separated from their virtues.As long as his tiger's body shakes, countless heroes will turn to the light and come to hug their thighs. As a result, they have a big somersault.

But Zhu Huntian and Zai Xiangjun feigned surrender and defeated Gao Huan.If it weren't for Duan Shao's brave rescue, this wave of Gao Huan would probably have died down.Even so, Han Gui's army was wiped out, and even Han Gui himself was captured by Ke Zhuhuntian and sent back to Jinyang, his life and death unknown.

The room leak happened to be raining all night, Gao Aocao led his troops to advance westward from Jingxing Pass, where Zhen Kai, the prefect of Changshan, who belonged to his own forces, was blocked at the first stop in Taihang Mountain, and was unable to move.

At the beginning, Hou Yuan, a peripheral general under Er Zhurong's command, was stationed in Pingtan City, which is the closest to Jingxing Pass, to guard against Gao Huan's army entering Taihang from Jingxing Pass.

Pingtan City, according to legend, was built by Zhao Jianzi, Zhengqing of the Jin Dynasty in the late Spring and Autumn Period, and has a long history.That is, Yangquan City in Liu Yishou's previous life.

Pingtan City is located at the confluence of several rivers. There is a river under the city named Hongcheng River, which is the moat of Pingtan City.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Fan Zhaozi and Bank of China Wenzi jointly attacked the land of Zhao. The coalition forces and the Zhao army fought fiercely here. The casualties on both sides were extremely heavy.

People called the moat "Hongcheng River", and because of the auspicious meaning, it was also called "Hongcheng River".

Hou Yuan, who was guarding Pingtan City, saw that Gao Aocao was approaching menacingly. Considering that Pingtan City had few soldiers, the mountain roads were not easy to walk, and the forest was dense, he decided to take the initiative to attack!
He first sent a small group of troops to harass Gao Aocao's camp at night, and then cut down trees in the mountains to block the mountain road, repeatedly provoking the opponent's sensitive nerves.

After Gao Aocao and others were familiar with Hou Yuan's routine, Hou Yuan ambushed Gao Aocao's army on both sides of the mountain road, burning the forest with fire and blocking the road with huge stones.Although not many soldiers were killed or wounded, everyone under Gao Aocao's command was panicked.

His strategy of not confronting the challenge head-on and harassing him frequently made Gao Aocao extremely angry, but there was nothing he could do.After tossing all the way to Pingtan City, only to find that the surrounding villages have been fortified and cleared, and all the villagers were forcibly gathered in Pingtan City. It seems that there is a determination to succeed or be benevolent!
Gao Aocao's subordinates are all newly recruited soldiers, demoralized by a series of insidious operations by the enemy.Gao Aocao ordered people to storm Pingtan City for three days without even filling in the moat.He had no choice but to send someone to ask for help from Zhen Kai, who was stationed at Jingxing Pass, and asked the other party to supervise a lot of food and grass for military supplies.

Gao Aocao himself camped under Pingtan City, thinking about how to break the city.

……

The news that Gao Aocao's offensive was not going well and he was completely unable to break through the corridor west of Jingxing Pass reached Gao Huan who was sitting in Xiangyuan, but Gao Huan's hair was almost graying.

It is indeed a good strategy for the two armies to attack, but the problem is that Gao Ao Cao's tribe must break through the corridor of Pingtan City, Shouyang City (Shouyang, Shanxi), and Yuci City to the west of Jingxing Pass to reach the Taiyuan Basin. will play a role.

Otherwise, Murong Shaozong, who was commanding and dispatching in Jinyang City, was not in a hurry at all. With his flanks unobstructed, he could let go of his hands and feet and attack the main force of Gao Huan's army attacking Jinzhou.

In the signing room at the head of Xiangyuan City, Gao Huan was holding a feather fan in his hand, fanning the fan while walking around, restless, like ants on a hot pot.

He did not expect that the attack on Jinzhou would be so difficult this time.So far, there has not been a big victory that affects the battle situation.

The centipede is dead but not stiff, and the military strength of Er Zhurong's subordinates is incomparable to Bodhisattva Xiao of Liang State.At this moment, Gao Huan deeply felt the terrifying background of the opponent's military strength.

Hedouling Bufan was able to show off its prestige in Beixiurong because Er Zhurong deliberately indulged in retreating, and it was also because Murong Shaozong guarded Jinyang unshakably and did not send troops to the north.

If not, the Hexi thief would have died long ago.Well, although they are still cold in the end.

Now that Yuan Tianmu is guarding Huguan City and waiting for help, Zhu Huntian and the northern part of Jinzhou can't bear it anymore. This situation where he can't advance, can't retreat, and the strange soldiers can't get in, really makes Gao Huan very anxious.

"Dragon sparrow! Dragon sparrow!"

Gao Huan shouted Sun Teng's name and stomped his feet anxiously.

"The battle situation is anxious, what should I do? I can't lead troops to directly attack Ke Zhuhuntian, right?"

Gao Huan walked up to the old god in front of Sun Teng who seemed to be asleep, thought about it, and let out another long sigh.

"King Gao, don't worry. In fact, attacking Zhu Huntian directly is the best strategy, and it is absolutely not advisable."

Sun Teng said a correct nonsense.

"This king also knows that is not acceptable, but this is not acceptable, and that is not acceptable. You can't retreat back to Yecheng in despair, right?"

Gao Huan wanted to stomp his feet, but he also knew that venting was meaningless.

"King Gao, my subordinates have two plans, are you interested in listening to them?"

Sun Teng said unhurriedly.

"Hurry up, tell me, when is this!"

As soon as Gao Aocao received the battle report from Gao Aocao, Gao Huan came to Sun Teng to discuss strategies, and he was going crazy now.

"If King Gao wants to keep his pocket safe, then concentrate his forces to attack Huguan City. As long as Huguan City is captured, it will be equivalent to capturing half of Jinzhou. The north is nothing to worry about, and the defense is more than enough to be aggressive. .

When we accumulate strength and make a comeback in the coming year, we can also seize the entire Jinzhou and spy on Jinyang. "

The way to die is sometimes a good way.Yuan Tianmu was trapped in Huguan City, with no grain inside and no reinforcements outside. It was only a matter of time before the city fell.

Hearing this, Gao Huan fell silent, pacing back and forth thinking, it seems that Sun Teng's method does have merit.

It's just how to put it, it cost a lot of money and food, killed and injured so many soldiers, and broke the Korean track.It seems a bit embarrassing to seize half of Jinzhou.That was certainly a victory from a military point of view, but not necessarily so from a political point of view.

"The strategy of the dragon bird is not bad, it is..."

Gao Huan didn't know what words to use to describe it for a while, and always felt that it was too useless to withdraw troops like this.

"Is there another way?"

Gao Huan looked at Sun Teng expectantly and asked.

"Hou Yuan is just a peripheral general under Er Zhurong's command, although he has outstanding abilities, he is not a direct descendant.

Fortunately, Er Zhurong reused Hou Yuan to suppress the Six Towns uprising for him and defeated Ge Rong.

It's just that now that Er Zhurong has lost power, he suspects that his subordinates are unfaithful, and only trusts Er Zhu's direct lineage, even Murong Shaozong was reused by Er Zhurong because his mother was born in Er Zhu's family, so Hou Yuan was not satisfied with it.

With his own strength, he blocked Gao Aocao in Pingtan City, which is enough to show his extraordinary ability.But now Er Zhurong only gave him a small city to garrison, Hou Yuan must be extremely dissatisfied.

It's just that in the current situation, he doesn't have a good choice for the time being.

If King Gao promised him with a high official and rich salary, and gave him gold and silver in advance to make friends with him, Hou Yuan must have turned around and helped us open the passage from Jingxing Pass to Jinyang under the temptation of Hou Yuan.

In this way, the door to the east of Jinyang is wide open, and Murong Shaozong must divide his troops to prevent Gao Aocao from raiding Jinyang.Then Zhu Huntian and he became alone.

At that time, you can order Gao Ao Cao's troops to go south and attack us back and forth to make peace with Zhu Huntian. It can be decided in one battle!However, if Zhu Huntian's reconciliation is defeated, Murong Shaozong of Jinyang will definitely be alone, and he must ask Er Zhurong for help.In this way, isn't Gao Wang's goal achieved? "

Sun Teng touched his long beard. His words made Gao Huan suddenly enlightened, as if he had opened up Ren Du's two veins in an instant.

"Wonderful!"

Gao Huan clapped his hands and laughed. It was obvious that the second strategy was to his liking, and Gao Huan also intuitively believed that there was a great chance of success.When he was still under Er Zhurong's command before, he felt that Hou Yuan was greedy for profit, and he was far from Liu Yishou's kind of selfless person.

This game of chess has reached a critical moment of victory and defeat, and the chess piece that turns defeat into victory is Hou Yuan, a very capable person who is now being ignored by Er Zhurong.

As long as Hou Yuan turns against him, the whole game of chess will come to an end.Gao Huan felt that Sun Teng's move was very good.

"Who can be the envoy? Longque doesn't have to go, the king still needs you to give advice here."

Gao Huan pulled Sun Teng's sleeve and said.

"Liu Gui is honest and honest, and it is easy to win people's trust. It is much better for him to persuade Hou Yuan to surrender than someone with a smooth tongue."

Sun Teng suggested calmly.

The last time he was beaten by Liu Yishou's people in Rencheng, Qingzhou, Liu Gui could hardly absolve himself of the blame.But this is Gao Huan's benefactor, Gao Huan was able to hang out under Er Zhurong's command back then, thanks to Liu Gui's recommendation.

Now Liu Gui is being held accountable for the fiasco in Qingzhou, and all his official positions have been deprived. The situation is very bad.Asking Liu Gui to persuade Hou Yuan to surrender is also to give the other party a chance.

"Longque's words won my heart."

Gao Huan nodded slightly, thinking that this idea is really good.Liu Gui can seize the opportunity, he is naturally happy to see it succeed, after all, they are old brothers.If I can't catch it, I also gave everyone an explanation: It's not that I, Gao Huan, treated Fa Xiao harshly, but that I really can't stand up because of my lack of ability.

"In this case, please also ask Gao Wang to watch the changes in Xiangyuan and stop them with silence. Now we are fighting in the place under Er Zhurong's jurisdiction, and the autumn harvest is coming soon. Er Zhurong is in a hurry, but we are not in a hurry."

Sun Teng said meaningfully.

……

In a certain large-scale courtyard in Shouyang City, Jia Sixie pointed to the round cake-shaped objects on the ground with some pride and said to Liu Yishou, "The caustic soda that my lord talked about a few days ago is probably this thing. "

Round cake shape, brown-gray, many of which are black fragments, very poor in appearance.

"Uh, this can be used in steamed cakes. After adding it, there will be no sour taste. Are you sure it's this thing?"

Liu Yishou just mentioned it casually, but he didn't expect Jia Sixie to make it out within two days, isn't that how he opened it?
"My lord does not know that people in the north love steamed cakes. This kind of plant ash extract can eliminate the sour taste. It is not a new thing in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. The plant ash and water are boiled many times to extract the light yellow water. It is called Gray water, something that's been around for hundreds of years.

And the caustic soda that the lord said is nothing more than separating the gray water into stones. This kind of thing has been done before, but it's not as clear as the lord said. "

Jia Sixie smiled wryly, not knowing why Liu Yishou was so excited.The caustic soda he was talking about, not to mention the fact that gray water itself has been popularized for a long time, but the precipitated crystals, alchemy Taoists have long understood that they are all mature things.

The only shortcoming of this thing is: besides making noodles, I don’t know what else it can be used for!

Jia Sixie believes that what the poor people lack these days is not plant ash, let alone caustic soda, but pasta!
What they lack is only pasta, because the wheat has to be ground into flour, and there is an important process in the middle, but that process is monopolized by the tyrants and big households from all over the place.

On the contrary, there are things like plant ash, there are as many as you want, and there are materials all over the mountains and plains.

So the caustic soda mentioned by Liu Yishou sounds like a big deal, but in fact it has already been rotten on the street, but people don't know what it is useful for.

Jia Sixie just standardized these procedures, walked around from beginning to end, and used a round abrasive tool to get a batch of solid caustic soda out.

Any farmer with farming experience can do it, but not so finely.

"It's interesting."

Liu Yishou raised his chin, thoughtful.

"My lord, the things are here, what's the next step?"

Jia Sixie asked with a confused face.

"Of course I want to make something good. Come here with your ear, and I will tell you quietly."

Liu Yishou murmured in Jia Sixie's ear for a long time, and Jia Sixie was inexplicably surprised by what he said.

"My lord, what is the use of this thing?"

If caustic soda can be used to leaven noodles, it is still a normal operation, then what Liu Yishou just said is a bit "not doing business properly".

"For Bodhisattva Xiao, don't ask so many questions, just do it."

Liu Yishou said broadly.

Say Cao Cao, and Cao Cao will arrive.At this moment, Yuan Shikang walked into the yard, glanced at the "round cakes" one after another on the ground, and said to Liu Yishou in a low voice: "The envoy of Jiankang has come, saying that it was Xiao Yan who ordered the master to go to Jiankang." Happy birthday to him."

When you are young, middle-aged, and old, birthdays have completely different meanings to a person.

When I was a teenager, I thought about having new clothes and toys for my birthday, so I could indulge.When you are middle-aged, you often forget which day your birthday is, and most likely no one else remembers your birthday.

And in old age, each birthday becomes more precious, because it means that you have successfully survived another year, and you will never know how many birthdays there will be.Every birthday may be the last!
This is especially true for Xiao Yan, who is already 69 years old.This time it is impossible not to go, if not, Bodhisattva Xiao will definitely remember how you treated him badly.

"Where's the messenger?"

Liu Yishou asked casually.

"It's Fu Qi, he's gone."

Yuan Shikang smiled wryly.

Fu Qi has already offended Liu Yishou to death, but Xiao Yan often sends him to Shouyang to deliver letters. I don't know if there is some evil taste.

"My lord, there have been rumors in Jiankang City recently that the lord is planning to rebel. I'm afraid that going to Jiankang this time will not go so smoothly."

Yuan Shikang said the truth, in fact, he did not want Liu Yishou to go to Jiankang.With Liu Yishou's power today, even if he doesn't celebrate Xiao Yan's birthday, it's perfectly fine. Could it be that Xiao Yan still blows up his hair?
"Forget it, after all, I'm my father-in-law. I should go to celebrate my birthday. If I don't go, doesn't that mean I'm going to rebel? Do you think I'm the one who wants to rebel?"

Liu Yishou waved his hand, indicating that he must go to Jiankang.

Yuan Shikang felt weird, so he didn't mention his own lord, but said that none of the servants and generals under his command were aiming at "rebellion". Liu Yishou's words really proved that "a humble man is invincible".

(End of this chapter)